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egypturnashSo yeah, I was doodling direct in AI and the first thing that came up was Alecto.
I know her chin and ears are wrong here but I can't remember what's right (oh, there it is, in the icon). Also note that judging from the silhouette of the Superdome, the story's explicitly set in New Orleans now rather than in a dreamy copy of it with the serial numbers filed off. I suspect I'll be processing some lingering stuff related to Katrina when I do get around to doing this story. Sure, add that in to the other old wounds I'll be obliquely licking, why not?
I wanted to pull something from either the Heaney translation of Beowulf or from Gardner's Grendel to put on this first doodle but I have neither book handy any more, and the Internet wouldn't serve up a pirate copy of either.
I'm kinda digging on this fake crosshatch look. I've faked it better in the past (art brush rather than pattern fills); I could probably experiment a while and make a nice library of ways to fake it. I'm not so much digging on this experimental rework of Clyve, though it sucks less than the overly-geometric dude I was originally drawing. That grate on the right comes from the outside of my father's recording studio on Rampart, by the way.
Also not totally happy with this fiddling with the queen of the Water Sidhe. (oh hey it would help if she had LONG POINTY EARS like an elf SHOULD, hmm, that's starting to go somewhere. Almost goaty for a bit, which would be interesting, but I decided to pull back from that.)
I am however happy with this drawing of the magic sword lying in the servitude, about to get rained on.
The "Midwinter 2011" date is not a promise of any kind. Although that'll be ten years since the central character walked into the back of my head and wrapped her cold, lonely self in a story I'd started to put together a few years before.
I know her chin and ears are wrong here but I can't remember what's right (oh, there it is, in the icon). Also note that judging from the silhouette of the Superdome, the story's explicitly set in New Orleans now rather than in a dreamy copy of it with the serial numbers filed off. I suspect I'll be processing some lingering stuff related to Katrina when I do get around to doing this story. Sure, add that in to the other old wounds I'll be obliquely licking, why not?
I wanted to pull something from either the Heaney translation of Beowulf or from Gardner's Grendel to put on this first doodle but I have neither book handy any more, and the Internet wouldn't serve up a pirate copy of either.
I'm kinda digging on this fake crosshatch look. I've faked it better in the past (art brush rather than pattern fills); I could probably experiment a while and make a nice library of ways to fake it. I'm not so much digging on this experimental rework of Clyve, though it sucks less than the overly-geometric dude I was originally drawing. That grate on the right comes from the outside of my father's recording studio on Rampart, by the way.
Also not totally happy with this fiddling with the queen of the Water Sidhe. (oh hey it would help if she had LONG POINTY EARS like an elf SHOULD, hmm, that's starting to go somewhere. Almost goaty for a bit, which would be interesting, but I decided to pull back from that.)
I am however happy with this drawing of the magic sword lying in the servitude, about to get rained on.
The "Midwinter 2011" date is not a promise of any kind. Although that'll be ten years since the central character walked into the back of my head and wrapped her cold, lonely self in a story I'd started to put together a few years before.
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Date: 2010-02-17 04:57 am (UTC)Rain is always a selling point.
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:36 am (UTC)